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An example of work by Margaret Gove Camfferman
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Biography from Martin-Zambito Fine Art:
| Margaret Gove Camfferman was born in Rochester, Minnesota. She studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, where she met her husband, Peter Camfferman; at the New York School of Applied Arts and Design; and with Robert Henri in New York. Camfferman and her husband were among the earliest modernist painters in the Northwest.
In 1915 a year after their marriage, Camfferman and her husband moved to Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington. She exhibited actively with the Northwest Annuals beginning in the early 1920s. Her work was in the manner of her master, Henri, and showed the influence of the Postimpressionists. After studying with André Lhote in Paris in 1932, her paintings took on aspects of Cubism and became more experimental.
Camfferman and her husband built their home, called Brachenwood, at Langley and included cabins for visiting artists and instructors. They lived in New York in 1925–26 and then returned permanently to Langley. Both were members of Seattle’s Group of Twelve and were very highly regarded within the regional art community.
Like many women of her era, Camfferman chose to focus attention on her husband’s career and was dedicated to his work even though she was nine years older and considerably more experienced in their early years together.
Camfferman worked as an easel painter with the Public Works of Art Project during the Depression. She had a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum in 1935 and exhibited in the First National Exhibition of American Art at Rockefeller Center in 1936. She also exhibited in San Francisco, at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition, the San Francisco Art Museum, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. She also participated in the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibitions from the 1920s through 1956.
David F. Martin
Martin-Zambito Fine Art
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